10:37 AM,
Feb. 26, 2013

This 2012 file photo show a CVS store in Chicago. CVS will take steps to make it easier for consumers to doublecheck their prescription bottles after the wrong medications found their way into bottles at five of its New Jersey pharmacies last year.

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CVS will take steps to make it easier for consumers to double-check their prescription bottles after the wrong medications found their way into bottles at five of its New Jersey pharmacies last year.

The agreement, between the state Division of Consumer Affairs and CVS Caremark, comes after the state looked into a mishap involving prescriptions for children's chewable fluoride at a CVS in Chatham. On 15 occasions between December 2011 and January 2012, pill bottles that were supposed to contain tablets of children's chewable fluoride also included tablets of tamoxifen, a breast cancer ...